Re: [PATCH] xen/swiotlb: correct the check for xen_destroy_contiguous_region

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:19:41PM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 28.04.20 10:25, Peng Fan wrote:

Adding Joe Jin.

Joe, didn't you have some ideas on how this could be implemented?

> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/swiotlb: correct the check for
> > > xen_destroy_contiguous_region
> > > 
> > > On 28.04.20 09:33, peng.fan@nxp.com wrote:
> > > > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
> > > > 
> > > > When booting xen on i.MX8QM, met:
> > > > "
> > > > [    3.602128] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> > > 0000000000272d40
> > > > [    3.610804] Mem abort info:
> > > > [    3.613905]   ESR = 0x96000004
> > > > [    3.617332]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> > > > [    3.623211]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> > > > [    3.626628]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> > > > [    3.630128] Data abort info:
> > > > [    3.633362]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
> > > > [    3.637630]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
> > > > [    3.640955] [0000000000272d40] user address but active_mm is
> > > swapper
> > > > [    3.647983] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > > > [    3.654137] Modules linked in:
> > > > [    3.677285] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QM MEK (DT)
> > > > [    3.677302] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> > > > [    3.684253] imx6q-pcie 5f000000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
> > > > [    3.688297] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
> > > > [    3.688310] pc : xen_swiotlb_free_coherent+0x180/0x1c0
> > > > [    3.693993] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
> > > > [    3.701002] lr : xen_swiotlb_free_coherent+0x44/0x1c0
> > > > "
> > > > 
> > > > In xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent, if !(dev_addr + size - 1 <= dma_mask)
> > > > or range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size) are true, it will create
> > > > contiguous region. So when free, we need to free contiguous region use
> > > > upper check condition.
> > > 
> > > No, this will break PV guests on x86.
> > 
> > Could you share more details why alloc and free not matching for the check?
> 
> xen_create_contiguous_region() is needed only in case:
> 
> - the bus address is not within dma_mask, or
> - the memory region is not physically contiguous (can happen only for
>   PV guests)
> 
> In any case it should arrange for the memory to be suitable for the
> DMA operation, so to be contiguous and within dma_mask afterwards. So
> xen_destroy_contiguous_region() should only ever called for areas
> which match above criteria, as otherwise we can be sure
> xen_create_contiguous_region() was not used for making the area DMA-able
> in the beginning.
> 
> And this is very important in the PV case, as in those guests the page
> tables are containing the host-PFNs, not the guest-PFNS, and
> xen_create_contiguous_region() will fiddle with host- vs. guest-PFN
> arrangements, and xen_destroy_contiguous_region() is reverting this
> fiddling. Any call of xen_destroy_contiguous_region() for an area it
> was not intended to be called for might swap physical pages beneath
> random virtual addresses, which was the reason for this test to be
> added by me.
> 
> 
> Juergen
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Peng.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think there is something wrong with your setup in combination with the ARM
> > > xen_create_contiguous_region() implementation.
> > > 
> > > Stefano?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Juergen
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >    drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c | 4 ++--
> > > >    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> > > > index b6d27762c6f8..ab96e468584f 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> > > > @@ -346,8 +346,8 @@ xen_swiotlb_free_coherent(struct device *hwdev,
> > > size_t size, void *vaddr,
> > > >    	/* Convert the size to actually allocated. */
> > > >    	size = 1UL << (order + XEN_PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > > 
> > > > -	if (!WARN_ON((dev_addr + size - 1 > dma_mask) ||
> > > > -		     range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size)) &&
> > > > +	if (((dev_addr + size - 1 > dma_mask) ||
> > > > +	    range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size)) &&
> > > >    	    TestClearPageXenRemapped(virt_to_page(vaddr)))
> > > >    		xen_destroy_contiguous_region(phys, order);
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
>